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Och, I dinna think the Bard was the source of that one. Perhaps Robert Benchley? Now I suppose Burns might have written:

Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,
What's that dagger in thy breastie?

Having sung in an opera chorus in my youth and latterly spent 20 years preparing opera surtitles, whoever did write that was pretty much spot on :)

Speaking of Benchley, I think it was he who wrote of wrestling with a looming deadline for an article. Sitting frustrated at the typewriter, he had only written, "The..." His room was above a bar, and finally the sounds of jollity from below overcame him. He added "....hell with it" and went downstairs.
 
Stainless would be better.
Just make sure you grab the right one. You wouldn't want to be confronting a burglar armed with Dove. "You feeling squeaky clean, punk? Well, are ya?"

I remember reading years ago where someone had a pistol shrink-wrapped for storage in the shower! Not sure that's gonna work in an emergency.
 
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